Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4889
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004889
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Civic Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Ventham, Richard John Patrick
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Stockbridge, England
9. DATE OF BIRTH 3 17, 1899
10. AGE in Years72 Months4 Days19 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Royal Canadian Navy
13. Date last worked 1949 14. Total years 27 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Lilian Ventham
16. NAME of Father Edward Ventham
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Sarah Corddell
19. BIRTHPLACE England
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. L.W. Collins
address 6443 London Street, Halifax
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Fairview, Halifax
Date of burial August 9, 1971
22. Undertaker Cruikshank's Funeral Home Limited
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma of Prostate
(b) Multiple Metastases
(c) R. opened pelvis
other Chronic Anemia Cachexia
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